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1 edit | Sports networks are the demons of cable television For anyone who has complained about raising cable rates, you have one sect to thanks; sports TV. ESPN, NFL Network, Big Ten network are the epidemy of greed and what we know today as cable terrorism.
Here is a nice little business model. Big company owns rights to certain games. Big network makes spinoff little network (examples: FNB -> Big Ten Network, Espn -> espn2, espnclassic, espnu, espn360). Big network gives little network rights to games. Little network gouges customers for pricing in order to get rights to watch TV. The same is happening with other conferences, the SEC and ACC come to mind.
The NFL network pulled the national rights to their games that used to be broadcast on local channels...where did they move them? Lo and behold, the NFL network! Then, they have the audacity to limit the Sunday ticket to DTV only. God forbid someone want to watch an our of market team that doesnt have a clear view to the southern sky.
360 is the first step of this via broadband. Its inevitable that iPTV will be next gen, and we can only hope and pray someone pops the NFLs balloon before their greed can stretch that far.
Its too damn bad too, cause I love football.
Anyways, thats my rant. |
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baineschile2600 ways to livePremium
join:2008-05-10
Sterling Heights, MI | reply to sonicmerlin
Yes, typo indeed |
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Then the cable companies should offer a la carte. I might pay for just the NFL and MLB, but I sure as hell don't want the movies reality shows, sitcoms, etc. I can get all that crap OTA via antenna.
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The problem is that customers who watch sports both spend a lot for their cable/satellite/whatever, and are very fickle and will immediately switch if their desired sport isn't available. This makes it very attractive for cable companies to put the screws to all their other customers (who aren't as fickle) when the sports providers put the screws to them. It doesn't hurt that cable companies like putting the screws to customers in general either.
I don't think the same will hold on the Internet. The people who get it for the sports are a much smaller subset, so the smaller ISPs will not get killed if they simply don't subscribe. |
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